Live from Memphis [Live]

live from memphis [live]

Track Listings

1. D-Up

2. 3-Point Landing

3. Better View

4. Come by the House

5. Wail Tales

6. Earth Mother

7. Mad as a Hatter

8. Be Here Now

9. 'Stack

10. Ophelia

11. Stay Loose

12. Don't Wanna Think About It

13. Sons and Daughters of the Sun

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Live from Memphis [Live]

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I didnt think it was possible...
Ditto what all the guys said!
Missing Out On This CD Is A Crime!
Tracy Rocks The Jail House
Live From Cell Block D

Live from Cell Block D
Tracy Nelson
Manufacturer: Memphis Int'l
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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The Best of Tracy Nelson & Mother Earth
In the Here and Now
Living with the Animals
Mother Earth

ASIN: B00009QG8I
Release Date: 2003-06-17

Tracks:

I Need All The Help I Can Get
Walkin' After Midnight
God Will
Got A New Truck
Tennessee Blues
Send Me To The 'lectric Chair
After The Fire Is Gone
Mother Earth
Strongest Weakness
Down So Low
Feel So Good

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I didnt think it was possible..........2006-02-22

for Tracy Nelson to get better. I remember hearing Down So Low when it first came out and was stunned. Until listening to this live recording, I didnt think it could be improved upon.. but I guess age and experience have given her the ability to make it even more mesmerizing. I bought the CD, got in my truck, drove off, put in the CD, and started to listen. I pulled off the road because I didnt think I should be driving.

As the other reviewers note, this is one thrilling performance. Her voice has gotten richer, and the delivery cant be beat. "God Will" is worth the price of the CD all by itself.

For those who are long time fans, listen to her original version of some of these songs, and the ones on this CD back to back. You will hear a wonderful transformation.

Ditto what all the guys said!.......2003-08-05

I really can't top the first three reviews. They said it all. I will add that I was glad to see a version of "God Will", since I love that song. Hearing it sung by Tracy, who has been my favorite singer since I first heard her back in Madison, Wisconsin, in college, was a real thrill.
I was glad to see the arrangments taking a bit of a back seat to her voice on this CD, allowing her "blues belter" vocals to come to the foreground. The slower than usual tempos on some cuts also helped to highlight Tracy's incredible vocal talent.
I agree with James, if you have a chance to see her live, don't miss it. She can stand three feet away from the microphone when singing, and still blow you right out of the room with the power of her voice.
Buy it...you won't regret it.

Missing Out On This CD Is A Crime!.......2003-07-05

Devotees of singer Tracy Nelson (and I certainly number myself among them) have been waiting for years for an official 'live' release from this phenomenal artist. Tracy has released 21 albums prior to this release, all of which have their wonderful moments and some are downright clasics(including 2001's independently released EBONY & IRONY, as well as I FEEL SO GOOD, and MOVE ON from the 1990s (both on Rounder Records), and several re-releases from her early days in the 60s and 70s). It's all great stuff, but even folks who love her studio work have been known to come out of one her concerts utterly astonished. It's almost as though even the best studio settings cannot do this astonishingly powerful singer justice.

I've always said that if I were a waiter in a club where Tracy Nelson was performing, I'd probably be fired before the night was through. Because I'd doubtless just stand there stock still, tray in hand and jaw dropped to my chest (if not the floor) in a state of complete awe.

So at last, we have the live album that many of us have been awaiting for the last two decades or longer. It's probably a cliche to say that it was "worth the wait," but in fact, it was.
This release is the work of a mature artist, one still very much in control of her instrument, but also whose artistry and vision has only deepened over the years. She wrote her signature song, the classic "Down So Low" when she was in her early twenties--a remarkable feat for someone so young--but the version included on this recording seems to come from an even deeper place. She sings every song on this record with conviction and authority, but nowhere is it more evident than on "Down So Low" and on Memphis Slim's blues classic "Mother Earth"--both of which she recorded for the first time in 1968.

Tracy has assembled a crackerjack band for this recording. She does not always work with a horn section, but when she does, the results are nearly always stellar. The horns give her that extra oomph and send her already soaring vocals into the stratosphere. And she has found a great setting and a more than enthusiastic audience in that Tennessee prison. This is an audience starved for music, and even if they had no idea who Tracy was beforehand, they respond eagerly and gratefully to what they soon realize is a truly first rate performance.

The selection of material could not have been better. Aside from the two early classics mentioned above, there are new versions of songs from throughout Tracy's lengthy career. She opens with a "I Need All the Help I Can Get," originally recorded in the 90s for Rounder. It's a rousing opener and sets the tone nicely. She follows with a song that she has never actually released on record, although she has been known to perform it live before, Patsy Cline's classic "Walkin' After Midnight." Tracy is one of the few singer's who can take on a Patsy Cline number and successfully make it her own. (Eat your heart out, LeAnn and k.d.) So in the space of two songs, she demonstrates her astonishing range and versatility. She follows up with another new track, Lyle Lovett's "God Will," a song which fits her voice perfectly and which demonstrates that she did not leave all sense of irony back with the last record's "ebony."

Her powerful r&b shouters never cease to astound, and stand up to repeated plays. But those repeated plays will also demonstrate the subtlety with which she approaches the ballads included here. Her phrasing on "God Will" and on "Tennessee Blues," first recorded in 1972 or '73, is controlled, disciplined and intelligently executed. She could teach a master class--provided she could find students worthy of her time.

Tracks that will be more or less familiar to fans are given new life in their live versions. Songs like the recent "Got A New Truck" and 1974's "After The Fire Is Gone" were originally recorded as duets (and remarkable ones they were too; the former having been a joint effort with another great lady, Marcia Ball, and the latter a collaboration with the legendary Willie Nelson--who is, by the way, NO RELATION), and as good as the originals were, it's great to hear Tracy tackle them as solo numbers. Nearly all previously recorded tracks have been revamped in ways that fans will find interesting, if not illuminating.

Nearly every review of Tracy Nelson's recorded work or of her live performances includes the observation that it's a downright shame that she is not better known. That's another cliche that's become hard to avoid when talking about this great singer. From everything I know about her, I don't think she particularly cares about reaching superstar status. She is first and foremost, an artist. But like many of her devoted fans, I still am eager to spread the word to as many receptive souls as possible. I figure it's doing them a favor.

Tracy Rocks The Jail House.......2003-06-23

When the hell is the public ever going to catch on to this woman? Most of the record stores I've visited have only had one or two copies in stock. That is an absolute sin. In her 35 year recording career, this is Tracy Nelson's 21st release - 22nd, if you count the Best of Tracy Nelson / Mother Earth - yet for some reason, she is not a household word. (Well, I could give you lots of reasons, but don't get me started). Established superstars (such as Willie Nelson, Linda Ronstadt and James Taylor, to name just a few) have praised her for years as "one of the best voices around" and "a singers singer". She has a powerful, expressive voice, demonstrating a talent that is almost superhuman, but inexplicably, she remains a secret. Her music is known only to music insiders, and a few lucky fans, who seem to number only in the thousands, instead of the millions she deserves.

For her first live album, recorded before inmates in the West Tennessee Detention Center, Tracy revisits two of her old standards from her first Mother Earth album - Down So Low (her self-penned theme song) and Mother Earth, an wonderful blues reflection on mortality written by Memphis Slim, from which her old band took their name. Esquire magazine once called Down So Low, "the saddest song ever written". Down So Low has been recorded by Linda Ronstadt, Etta James and Maria Muldaur (among others). It has never received a stronger treatment than it does here. Her legendary vocal prowess has only improved over the years, and her reputation as singing powerhouse is well supported by this release. This version of Down So Low compares quite favorably with the original, which she recorded in 1968, proving that she still has it. How many singers can re-record the same song after 35 years and sound better than ever doing it? I can't easily think of a single one.

The venue has an impressive effect on the selections. For anyone who has ever been to jail, or if you are a family member, or the loved one of a prisoner / ex-prisoner, some of these songs will take on a heartbreaking intimacy that is almost too personal to bear. When Tracy sings her theme song, Down So Low, suddenly, for me, it is no longer a song of unrequited love; instead I hear my own mother wailing in anguish at the first arrest of my older brother ("When you went away, I cried for so long...").

I have been privileged to hear Tracy live many times, the experience of which no record can ever fully convey - her voice is just too powerful. Before I even read the notes, I looked at the track listing and saw Tennessee Blues, and my first thought was, "I've never heard her do that live. That's an old one". Almost reflexively, I started to run the lyrics through my head, and a chill ran down my spine. "If I had my way, I'd leave here today, I'd leave in a hurry..." the song starts. Instantly, images of those inmates flooded my mind, smiles and maybe a few tears on their contented faces. All of a sudden, the identification they must have experienced with that lyric and the stark reality of their situation came pouring out of the words right at me, and the song took on a new, heartbreaking, yet comforting profundity. I can see those inmates in their drab uniforms (no matter what color, prison garb is drab), nodding their heads and agreeing 1000% with the sentiment behind the song. "A place I could use... a place I could lose those Tennessee Blues". Wow. Tennessee Prison. Tennessee Blues.

Tracy doesn't stop there. She has finally committed to record her version of Walkin' After Midnight, made famous by the late Patsy Cline. Tracy's rendition owes nothing to Patsy; as few singers can, she manages to make it her own without dredging up comparison to Patsy, or detracting at all from the memory of the original.

She also revisits some of her best stuff with new verve, including her self-penned (with assistance from Marcia Ball) Got A New Truck (a song I confess I loathed until this reading - but I'm not into autos) and a solo version of the duet for which she and Willie Nelson received a Grammy for Best Country Duo in 1974, After The Fire Is Gone. She has lost none of her incredible voice, and seems to improve with age, like fine marijuana.

Added to this wonderful mix of Blues, R & B and Country (and ALL her albums are a wonderful mix of Blues, R & B and Country, with just a smidge of Country-Blues influenced Rock to round it all out) is a thoroughly original arrangement / cover of Lyle Lovett's lyrically ironic God Will, which may just be the most understated and effective track on the whole album, since it suits her style perfectly and offers her fans choice to add to their list of favorite Tracy Nelson tunes.

Since acquiring my copy last week, I have played this album no less than two dozen times. It gets fresher and more creative with each listen. If you are familiar with Tracy at all, you will not hesitate to acquire this release. If you're not, I can think of few better introductions to her craft - notably her 1969 classic Country album (Mother Earth Presents Tracy Nelson Country - Mercury Records - available on a Reprise CD) or her 1978 masterpiece Homemade Songs (Flying Fish Records - available on a CD also containing her complete second Flying Fish issue, Come See About Me). Try her out soon - you will not be sorry. Submitted June 22, 2003.

Live From Cell Block D.......2003-06-18

First of all - let's get one thing straight. Tracy Nelson can do no wrong. That said, this is an incredible live album, which was a long time in coming.

I'm sure jokes will be told about singing to a 'captive' audience, but it takes a true talent to be able to get away with singing a song in a jail entitled "Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair".

Other highlights are her own "Down So Low" "Tennessee Blues" and "After the Fire is Gone". Actually, as is true of every Tracy Nelson album, there is not a bad song in the bunch. Listen to "God Will" or "Mother Earth" and try not to be moved.

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Live Broadcast 1952-1964

Album Description

If 1950's rock radio was defined by the unique personalities of the likes of Alan Freed and Wolfman Jack, Dewey Phillips was unique among the unique. He brought black rhythm and blues to white teenagers in Memphis two years before Freed started doing the same in Cleveland. He brought rock 'n' roll to television a year before Dick Clark's American Bandstand. And while segregation was imposed on virtually every aspect of life in the streets, "Daddy-O" Dewey gleefully integrated the airwaves of the South. These selections offer a glimpse into this unique performer during his rise, at his peak, and in the decline of his career. It is a voice whick has not been heard before and will likely not be heard again - a voice which changed the social landscape of Memphis and the musical landscape of the world.

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a great Piece of History.......2002-09-19

Here are the sounds of yesteryear captured through the voice of a fascinating character (Dewey Phillips) who introduced me to the real Blues via his dj chatter when I was a teenager. Yes this is Nostalgia with a Capital "N". The arcane vocubulary, the primitive broadcasting (including the scratchy, over cued 78's, and of course the classical blues of the South are all on this CD. (Even the first Ricky Nelson recording appears from a late spring 1957 broadcast.)

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Angelic Voices of Faith Celebrate in Song

Live from Memphis: Let's Celebrate
Billy Rivers & the Angelic Voices of Faith
Manufacturer: Atlanta Int'l
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Gospel | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music

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Jesus, Jesus, Jesus

ASIN: B000I5XDZ6
Release Date: 2006-11-14

Tracks:

Founder's Intro
Star Spangled Banner
Worship Christ (Celebrate)
Reverence The Lord
Solid Rock
I Want To Be Touched
Medley: Better Way/More Than A Conqueror/It Is Well
Time Is Winding Up
I Must Tell Jesus
He Didn't Have To Do It
He Knows
Your Blessings Are On The Way
Blessed Jesus

Album Description

This outstanding choir, one of Memphis' absolute favorites, has just completed this live collection of anointed, uplifting, spirit-filled gospel as a part of their double decade of ministry of speading the Good News.

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Angelic Voices of Faith Celebrate in Song.......2007-06-06

I was afforded the opportunity to be present at the recording of the Angelic Voices of Faith's new cd "Let's Celebrate". The music, the musicianship, and the spirit of praise were all on one accord. If you love good gospel music, you need to buy this offering. The AVOF are at their best. I have been a fan for years and in my opinion, The Angelic Voices of Faith are one of the best choirs, if not the best choir, in Memphis. They are cutting edge without leaving God out of the equation. There will be no doubt in your mind that you are "having church". Minister Billy Rivers and the Angelic Voices of Faith set the house on fire!

Memphis has a long history of excellence in Gospel music. Billy Rivers and the Angelic Voices of Faith continue in that tradition. There are stand out performances, to be sure, but this is not a one hit CD. All of the selections are fantastic and beyond, from beginning to end. Just keep praising God!

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Like being there!

Live from Memphis
Freeworld
Manufacturer: Swirldisc Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000089YBV
Release Date: 2003-02-04

Tracks:

D-Up
3-Point Landing
Better View
Come by the House
Wail Tales
Earth Mother
Mad as a Hatter
Be Here Now
'Stack
Ophelia
Stay Loose
Don't Wanna Think About It
Sons and Daughters of the Sun

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Like being there!.......2003-04-02

And I should know, because I was there for two of the three nights this album was recorded.
FreeWorld has always been a live animal and the evolution of portable digital recording has finally enabled them to capture the essence of what they're really all about. The album does a pretty good job of encompassing the band's history, including songs from each of the group's previous three studio efforts as well as two new songs "Come By The House" and "'Stack" and a fun cover of The Band's ode to lost love "Ophelia". The sonic value of the recording is top-notch; presenting possibly the best sounding horn sections the band has gotten on disc to-date. The closest thing I have to a complaint about the album is a slight lack of variety. I would have liked to hear a few more older songs from the FreeWorld book (six of the thirteen tracks are songs from the band's most recent studio album) or more of their covers. Most bands that include covers in their live shows tend to pretty much go through the motions but anyone who has ever been to a FreeWorld show knows there is a heaping-helping of good ol' Memphis Fonk mixed in to everything they play and can attest to how much power their arrangements lend to the likes of the Grateful Dead's "Feel Like A Stranger" or Herbie Hancock's "Rockit". All-in-all this album is a great introduction to the Best Damn "Jamband" that way too many people have never heard.

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The Stage Stop 30 Years
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Various Artists
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Compilations | Rock | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000CA2SMG
Release Date: 2005-10-18

Tracks:

Danger Zone - Bluff City
One More Time - Avenue
Hope & Love - All the King's Men
Long Time Comin' - Backwood Justice
Walking Shoes - Tora Tora
Foolish Love - Lord Tracy
Times Are Changing - Roxy Blue
Love Can Make You Blind - E.M.N.
Medieval Steel - Medieval Steel
Something for Nothing - Black 59
God, I Look Disgusting - Luvjunkie
Josephine - Sugar Ditch
Six Gun Lover - Chosen
Empty Room - Bullet Theory
I'm Her Freak - Scott Sudbury
Way I Feel - Nina Makris Band
Black - Rail
Open My Eyes - Miller-Riggs Project

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Live @ Earth
Tarot
Manufacturer: SWYMM COMM
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000CA9RBQ
Release Date: 2002-01-08

Tracks:

Your Time to Grow
None
Touchdown Blue
Soundprints
Pursuit
Even
Letter
Good Constitution

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Live in the USA
Rick Moore and Mr Lucky
Manufacturer: Music Net/Line
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0002543G0
Release Date: 2002-08-13

Tracks:

House Rockin
Talk to Me
Good Woman Bad
Make Lovin You My Business
Guilty
Chicken House Blues
I Wanna Get Funky
Let Me Down Easy
Swingin Her Stuff

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Wow! Who Is This Guy?

Live in New Orleans

Manufacturer: Phmusic
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000CA30UA
Release Date: 2005-01-18

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Wow! Who Is This Guy?.......2007-05-01

I discovered Adrian Duke by accident when I downloaded (legally) his interpretation of "A Rainy Night in Georgia". This is a real talent! A vocalist and accoplished pianist, Adrian Duke sounds like a cross between Ray Charles and Joe Cocker and is at most a half-notch below the legendary Dr. John as a keyboardist. Duke, indeed, shows every sign of having been influenced by Ray and Doc. Some of his best single cuts are Charles standards "A Rainy Night in Georgia", "Hallelujah, I Just Love Her So", "Let's Go get Stoned" and versions of "Tipitina" and "Iko Iko" that owe much to Dr. John. My first concern, upon listening to this guy, is that he may be more of a mimic than a musician, but, as I listened more, it struck me that, his debts to Ray and Doc notwithstanding, is singing in his own voice and with a sensibility that is discernibly his own. He is well worth a listen. You've probably never heard of him, but he's better than 95% of the musicians you have!

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